Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
Life has a higher end, than to be amused
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.