A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.