If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.

If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.