“The world is a great book...they who never stir from home read only a page.”

“The world is a book, and he who does not travel reads only a page.”

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

“The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.”

“Tolle, lege: take up and read.”

“In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.”

“What madness, to love a man as something more than human! I lived in a fever, convulsed with tears and sighs that allowed me neither rest nor peace of mind. My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place to set it down to rest. Neither the charm of the countryside nor the sweet scents of a garden could soothe it. It found no peace in song or laughter, none in the company of friends at table or in the pleasures of love, none even in books or poetry. Everything that was not what my friend had been was dull and distasteful. I had heart only for sighs and tears, for in them alone I found some shred of consolation.”