Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.

Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.