Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.
Power is the first good.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.