“No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.”

“Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.”

“History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.”

“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.”

“Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into”

“When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”

“There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.”

“The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.”