The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.