“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it”

“The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.”

“In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.”

“In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer”

“The world loves a spice of wickedness”

“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues”