Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.