Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.

The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion