Be careful not to be the first to put your hands in the dish. What you cannot hold in your hands you must put on your plate. Also it is a great breach of etiquette when your fingers are dirty and greasy, to bring them to your mouth in order to lick them, or to clean them on your jacket. It would be more decent to use the tablecloth.

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

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.

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.