Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.