If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

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 greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.