The most universal quality is diversity.

It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.