Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth

Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.

A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours.