It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.
In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.
Calamus fortior gladio.
I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.
Judge not by the number, but by the weight.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.