“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.”

Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.