A simple life is its own reward.

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.