He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.