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.

The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.

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

I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.

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

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.