The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say because they were too obvious.
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death.
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
Our judgments judge us; and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
Nothing is more common than to think of the opposition of beings, of entities, as the essential condition of the real.
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
