There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."
Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.