"Avoid all refined speculation; confine yourself to simple reflections, and recur to them frequently. Those who pass too rapidly from one truth to another feed their curiosity and restlessness; they even distract their intellect with too great a multiplicity of views. Give every truth time to send down deep root into the heart."

"Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live."

"Out of too much learning become mad."

"In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale."

"Aut disce, aut discede; manet sors tertia, cædi."

"Much learning shows how little mortals know, Much wealth, how little worldings can enjoy."

"Under the world view possessed by medieval scholars, the path of learning was a path of self-deprecation."

"Were man to live coeval with the sun, The patriarch-pupil would be learning still."

"Our royal master saw with heedful eyes The state of his two universities; To one he sends a regiment, for why? That learned body wanted loyalty. To the other books he gave, as well discerning, How much that loyal body wanted learning."

"Ab uno disce omnes."

"Disce, puer, virtutem ex me, verumque laborem; Fortunam ex aliis."

"Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return."

"Wearing his wisdom lightly."

"I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning."

"The King, observing with judicious eyes, The state of both his universities, To one he sent a regiment, for why? That learned body wanted loyalty; To the other he sent books, as well discerning, How much that loyal body wanted learning."

"O this learning, what a thing it is!"

"Our gracious monarch viewed with equal eye The wants of either university; Troops he to Oxford sent, well knowing why, That learned body wanted loyalty; But books to Cambridge sent, as well discerning That that right loyal body wanted learning."

"I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil."

"Few men make themselves Masters of the things they write or speak."

"No man is the wiser for his Learning * * * Wit and Wisdom are born with a man."

"Delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima."

"Homines, dum docent, discunt."

"Il ne l'en fault pas arrouser, il l'en fault teindre."

"Ils n'ont rien appris, ni rien oublie."

"Learning is but an adjunct to ourself And where we are our learning likewise is."

"Ein Gelehrter hat keine Langweile."

"The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind From being silent brutes to singing men."

"Thou art an heyre to fayre lyving, that is nothing, if thou be disherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were it for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony."

"Nosse velint omnes, mercedem solvere nemo."

"He [Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes."

"He [Temple] was a man of the world among men of letters, a man of letters among men of the world."

"Well, for your favour, sir, why, give God thanks, and make no boast of it; and for your writing and reading, let that appear when there is no need of such vanity."

"Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son."

"Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consum'd the midnight oil?"

"There is no other Royal path which leads to geometry."

"Walkers at leisure learning's flowers may spoil Nor watch the wasting of the midnight oil."

"Next these learn'd Jonson in this list I bring Who had drunk deep of the Pierian Spring."

"Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning."

"I've studied now Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Medicine And even, alas, Theology From end to end with labor keen; And here, poor fool; with all my lore I stand no wiser than before."

"Extremæ est dementiæ discere dediscenda."

"When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things."

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."

"Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum."

"There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind."

"The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument."

"Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books."

"Men of polite learning and a liberal education."

"And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche."