He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

All things are full of God.

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.