Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

Experience makes us wise.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

Envy is littleness of soul.

Words are the only things that last for ever.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.