Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

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.

The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.