The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

Medicine for the dead is too late

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.