The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.