Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

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

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

You have your face bare; I am all face.

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

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