O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.

When I was young, beautiful ancient statues were castrated, so that the eye might not be corrupted.... Nothing was gained, unless horses and asses had also been castrated.

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.