Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.