Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.

To understand is to forgive.