Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity.

Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it

The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.