What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.

I am myself the matter of my book.

Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.