One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant. - John Lancaster Spalding

When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.

If thou canst not hold the golden mean, say and do too little rather than too much.

Philosophers and theologians, like the vulgar, prefer contradiction to enlightenment. They refute one another more gladly than they learn from one another, as though man lived by shunning error and not by loving truth. Accept their formulas and they sink back into their easy chairs and comfortably doze.