The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.