"To measure things by things, and not by names."

"How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns."

"For what is a city but men? And what is a man, if he be not a rational creature?"

"What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield: and what is else not to be overcome?"

"When a man hath been labouring the hardest labour in the deep mines of knowledge, hath furnished out his mind through the whole cyclopædia, hath read the choicest authors, ancient and modern, cannot b…"