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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverend than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

For all knowledge and wonder is an impression of pleasure in itself.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.

Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.

For knowledge, too, is itself a power.

Knowledge is power.

One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through."

All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb. Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...

I would live to study, and not study to live.

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

It is impossible to love and be wise.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.