Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.

In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.

For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.

Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.

The intent of sincere humanitarians is to do good to society, just as the intent of the child who kills a bird by to much fondling is to do good to the bird.

The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods

Life was good, one had only to live it.

To learn six subjects without remembering how they were learnt does nothing to ease the approach to a seventh

Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern.

When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.

Facts speak plainer than words

As a guy I never liked being told to call, which my wife really never does, and that's why I call her as often as I do.

This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.

He'll learn that many women can satisfy for a short period of time, but when he falls in love, only one will sustain him forever.

Whenever people go out of their way to help other people - there's power and beauty in our diversity.

Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.