“Има хора, които си въобразяват, че всичко, което се прави със сериозен вид, е разумно.”

“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.”

“Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.”

“To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.”

“Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.”

“The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.”

“...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.”