A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.