It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being: who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, perception and with voice. …but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born in to the world to enjoy.

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.