O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.