There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself

It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.

Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.