To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

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

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

It is the acme of life to understand life.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.