A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.