Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

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.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly