Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits.

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.