Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.