I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."