In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.

The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us above the material universe. He would have his disciples apply themselves to this study, not that they may be able to buy or sell, not that they may qualify themselves to be shopkeepers or travelling merchants, but that they may learn to withdraw their minds from the ever-shifting spectacle of this visible and tangible world, and to fix them on the immutable essences of things.

It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.