Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.

Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes to us that is not altered and falsified by our Senses. When the compass, the square, and the rule are untrue, all the calculations drawn from them, all the buildings erected by their measure, are of necessity also defective and out of plumb. The uncertainty of our senses renders uncertain everything that they produce.

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