Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

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.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.