Things are only worth what you make them worth.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.

Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.