My trade and art is to live.

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.