Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

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

In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.