We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.