There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

How many fools does it take to make up a public?