Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.

Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.