There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.