It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.