Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.

It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

No noble thing can be done without risks.