I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

A home without books is a body without soul.

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.