Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.