The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.

Time and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice

The man of imagination who is untrained (unlearned, uneducated, undisciplined) has wings and no feet.