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.

You have your face bare; I am all face.

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?

Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.