Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for everyone thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even that those who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger meas

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

I think; therefore I am.