Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Concealed talent brings no reputation.
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.