Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure.

A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.

If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?

It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: "Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think," and the like.