A room without books is like a body without a soul.
For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret – that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.
Dum spiro, spero.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.