Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

Prevention is better than cure.

Don't give your advice before you are called upon.

By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

There is no joy in possession without sharing.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?