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

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

We have power over nothing except our will.

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.