No noble thing can be done without risks.

The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.

Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.