“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”
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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.