All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.

Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.