Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.

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.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.