Ambition and suspicion always go together.

It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.