When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.

“Excuse me, pray.” Without that excused would not have known there was anything amiss.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

I cannot forgive Descartes; in all his philosophy he did his best to dispense with God. But he could not avoid making Him set the world in motion with a flick of His finger; after that he had no more use for God.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.