"He who is in a hurry to do a thing, though he may do it well, yet he does it not well, for he has not given himself time to do it well."

"To love only what happens, what was spun for you. What could be more appropriate?"

"The faculty of reason is the only one which can contemplate itself, and by itself distinguish truth from falsehood, and the real from the unreal."

"If a man is able to show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth, by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance."

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."