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Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men’s judgments of one another.
To know nothing is the happiest life.
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don’t do it, and it won’t happen.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Your library is your paradise.
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
The desire to write grows with writing.
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?