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

He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

A witty saying proves nothing.

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.