In Almost Everything, Experience Is More Valuable

Those Who Wish To Appear Learned To Fools, Appear As Fools To The Learned.

Minds That Are Stupid And Incapable Of Science Are In The Order Of Nature To Be Regarded As Monsters And Other Extraordinary Phenomena; Minds Of This Sort Are Rare. Hence I Conclude That There Are Great Resources To Be Found In Children, Which Are Suffered To Vanish With Their Years. It Is Evident, Therefore, That It Is Not Of Nature, But Of Our Own Negligence, We Ought To Complain.

The Prosperous Can Not Easily Form A Right Idea Of Misery.

It Is The Nurse That The Child First Hears, And Her Words That He Will First Attempt To Imitate.

Too Exact, And Studious Of Similitude Rather Than Of Beauty. [lat., Nimis In Veritate, Et Similitudinis Quam Pulchritudinis Amantior.]