The world always looks straights ahead; as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself; I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward; as for me, I roll about in myself.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.