General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.

Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.