Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

He who will not when he may, may not when he will.

Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.

Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about words. ... [T]he word "logic" has a broad meaning, and is not restricted exclusively to the science of argumentative reasoning. [It includes] Grammar [which] is "the science of speaking and writing correctly-the starting point of all liberal studies."

A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.

Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.