Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

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

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

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

Fortune favors the audacious.