I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.
True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.
There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.
Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.
Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.
God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only.