We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.