It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

Reading maketh a full man.

The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so