Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

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

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.

Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.

The soul that has no established aim loses itself