There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

God: personified incomprehensibility.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.