A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society

Every man has a wild beast within him.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

He who defends everything defends nothing.

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.