The Wedlocks Of Minds Will Be Greater

Only A Very Few Can Be Learned, But All Can Be Christian, All Can Be Devout, And – I Shall Boldly Add – All Can Be Theologians.

God Has Administered To Us Of The Present Age, A Bitter Draught And A Harsh Physician, On Account Of Our Abounding Infirmities.

I Consider As Lovers Of Books Not Those Who Keep Their Books Hidden In Their Store-chests And Never Handle Them, But Those Who, By Nightly As Well As Daily Use Thumb Them, Batter Them, Wear Them Out, Who Fill Out All The Margins With Annotations Of Many Kinds, And Who Prefer The Marks Of A Fault They Have Erased To A Neat Copy Full Of Faults.

Out Of All Those Centuries The Greeks Can Count Seven Sages At The Most, And If Anyone Looks At Them More Closely I Swear He'll Not Find So Much As A Half-wise Man Or Even A Third Of A Wise Man Among Them.

Nowadays The Rage For Possession Has Got To Such A Pitch That There Is Nothing In The Realm Of Nature, Whether Sacred Or Profane, Out Of Which Profit Cannot Be Squeezed.