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One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

Men are what they see and judge; though some do not fill up their light, yet none go beyond it.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.