Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.