Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.
In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.
It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
I am myself the matter of my book.
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.