Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Fortune favors the audacious.

The desire to write grows with writing.

Your library is your paradise.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

To know nothing is the happiest life.