He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)

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.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.

The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.