- A room without books is like a body without a soul.
- If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
- Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
- To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
- Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.
- Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief
- Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
- The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
- The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
- The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
- The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
- To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
- It is a great thing to know your vices.
- Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
- The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil
What To Consume 