We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

When one is polite in German, one lies.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much