No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

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

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.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.