Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is . . . , which is to say, I suspend my judgment.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.