Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.