In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.

What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?

If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.

Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.