... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.

If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.