Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

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

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it; he sees knowledge and does not use it.