Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.

I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.