The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.