Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me.

Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.

I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is . . . , which is to say, I suspend my judgment.

Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.