I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

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

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.