It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there’s always the chance that a folly will.

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Christians would show sense if they dispatched these argumentative Scotists and pigheaded Ockhamists and undefeated Albertists along with the whole regiment of Sophists to fight the Turks and Saracens instead of sending those armies of dull-witted soldiers with whom they've long been carrying on war with no result.

Retain the wind by compressing the belly.