My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

One may be humble out of pride.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.

I would have every man write what he knows and no more.

Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.