"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen."

"What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly: that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage."

"Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few."

"Censorship is the tool of those who have to hide what they think and what they do."

"The greatest felicity of life is to be employed in a work, to which one is fitted by nature."