Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.