The virtue of books is to be readable.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Friendship buys friendship.