"To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar."

"For the mind is not a tabula rasa upon which impressions are made, but rather a wax tablet upon which impressions are made, and which retains them for a time."

"The greatest objection to a monarch cannot be made without a paradox; for it is that he is too great to be good."

"For there is no bond of society but in knowledge."

"The greatest error of all is to think that a man has no control over his thoughts."