A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.

Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is . . . , which is to say, I suspend my judgment.

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."

To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest