“Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.”

“There is no passion so much transports thesincerity of judgement as doth anger”

“Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.”

“We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.”

“There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)”

“The most beautiful lives, to my mind,are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle, and without eccentricity.”

“In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it, such as the philosopher Herillus, who find in it the sovereign good and think it has the power to make us wise and happy.”