I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.