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

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.

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

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

He who will not when he may, may not when he will.

Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.