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.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Religion is the pious worship of God.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.