He learnt to write what is regarded by competent critics as the purest Latin of the middle ages:The breadth of his reading in the Latin classics is astonishing.

He would be a scholar in any age, and was head and shoulders above his own.

Et pro virtutum habitu quilibet et liber est, et, quatenus est liber, eatenus virtutibus pollet.

Exquisita lectio singulorum, doctissimum; cauta electio meliorum, optimum facit.