Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

With knowledge grows doubt.