Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

No possession is gratifying without a companion.

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.