Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more.

Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog.

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.