A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.

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

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification