Philosophy is the true mother of science.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

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.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.