Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

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.

What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.

But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.

The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.