An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.