You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.