“Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.”

“It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.”

“Nūllum magnum ingenium sine mixtūrā dēmentiae fuitNo great talent without an element of madness”

“A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient; nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in a fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient; and looking upon them only as sick and extravagant.”

“No man can be sane who searches for what will injure him in place of what is best.”

“As often as I have been amongst men, I have returned less a man.”

“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it?A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.”