No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.
The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.