Wie overal is, is nergens.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

There is an abecedarian ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it

Kun je ook maar iemand goed vinden als je niemand slecht vindt?

Als ik mijn mening te berde breng, is dat om te laten zien hoever mijn blik reikt, niet wat de reikwijdte van de dingen is.