This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

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

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.

Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.

I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.