We never love a person, but only qualities.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
The only shame is to have none.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Vanity is but the surface.
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.