Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.

My appetite comes to me while eating.