“I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.”

“I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. ”

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”

“None strive to know their proper meritBut strain for wisdom, beauty, spiritAnd lose the praise that is their dueWhen they've the impossible in view”

“Civility costs nothing and buys everything”

“There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.”

“Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.”