Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.