I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.
Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.
You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.