"The Lord said: … These people draw near with their mouths and honor me with the lips while their hearts are far from …"

"Nothing taught by force stays in the soul."

"We work merely to fill the memory, leaving the understanding empty."

"Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own."

"There is frequently more to be learn'd from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk …"

"A learned coxcomb dyeth his mistakes in so much a deeper colour: a wrong kind of learning serveth only to embroider h…"

"It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself …"

"What a pity it is that ... tutors, both in public and private seminaries of learning, should forget that the forming …"

"The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,"

"Learning without thought is labor lost."