The desire to write grows with writing.- Desiderius Erasmus
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
Prevention is better than cure.
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it is not -it's human.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
No one respects a talent that is concealed.
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
