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.

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

Retain the wind by compressing the belly.

I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth

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