Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.

A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.