Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Almost all life depends on probabilities.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.