Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.