They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

What a glut of books! Who can read them?

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.