Let every foot have its own shoe.

Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.

Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that receives; it is a mortal hand that presents it to us, it is a mortal hand that accepts it.

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself