"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."

"Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference..."

"And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?"

"The wisest men follow their own direction"

"Only a madman would give good for evil"

"There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck."

"Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves"

"Toil says the proverb, is the sire of fame"

"Noble fathers have noble children."

"I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too."

"The best prophet is common sense, our native wit."

"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quite conscience."

"There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair"

"We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement."

"Cleverness is not wisdom."

"Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err."

"Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails."

"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter."

"No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow."

"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor."

"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other."

"It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband."

"Impudence is the worst of all human diseases."

"Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity."

"In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart."

"Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries."

"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."

"By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world."

"Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything."

"Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death."

"Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them."

"Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."

"Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it."

"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

"The heart has reasons that reason cannot know."

"We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people."

"Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable."

"There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition"

"There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us."

"Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care."

"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me"

"God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality."

"The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play"

"Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough."

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."

"Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have different effects."

"Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder."

"Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable."

"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much"

"The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing."