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

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 greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

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

Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have.