All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

A small number of choice books are sufficient.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.