Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.