Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.
So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.
The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.