A great large book is a great evil.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.