A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.

If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed.

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.