The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.