The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

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.

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.