Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.