There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

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.

The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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.