Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

There is nothing so ridiculous absurd* but some philosopher has said it.

. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky. . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed....

A home without books is a body without soul.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.