There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth

There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?

Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?.

I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.

A pretty woman is a welcome guest.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.