The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.

We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.

I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.

The law of common sense.

The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.