Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

How many fools does it take to make up a public?

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

Conviction is the conscience of intellect.