Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by the dozen.
Source: In 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, ed. Robert Byrne, 1988.
-- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, (Feb 28 1553-1592), French essayist, courtier; His Essais (Essays) established a new literary form, and often used quotations from classical writers.