“It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought.”

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

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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