Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.