Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.
The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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.