Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own; and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.

Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?

Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man.... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself.

Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.

When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.