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

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

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

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

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

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