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

Prejudice, friend, govern the vulgar crowd.

Only your friends steal your books

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude