Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

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.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.