Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.

Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.