The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.