Si, avons nous beau monter sur des echasses, car sur des echasses encore faut-il marcher de nos jambes. Et au plus eleve trone du monde, si ne sommes assis que sur notre cul.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.

It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject: we do not…

Nobles and heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew Prior; The son of Adam and of Eve: Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher?

I'm just a regular guy, you know? There's no leotard and cape under my clothes. I shit, I piss, I drink too much and throw up, just like everybody else.

In sterculino plurimum gallus potest.