“Women are books, and men the readers be...”
“Contentment makes poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor.”
“Read much, but not many books.”
“Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into disputation, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinburgh.”
“... a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work....”
“He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books.”
“Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.”