The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.