Who then to frail mortality shall trust,
But limns the water, or but writes in dust."

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

"For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest . . ."

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

Fortunes . . . come tumbling into some men's laps.