Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.