When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.