The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
I am myself the matter of my book.
To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.