A Dissolute And Intemperate Youth Hands Down

For Surely To Be Wise Is The Most Desirable Thing In All The World.

Things Perfected By Nature Are Better Than Those Finished By Art.

The Precepts Of The Law Are These: To Live Honestly, To Injure No One, And To Give Everyone Else His Due.

Vicious Habits Are So Odious And Degrading That They Transform The Individual Who Practices Them Into An Incarnate Demon.

For Books Are More Than Books, They Are The Life, The Very Heart And Core Of Ages Past, The Reason Why Men Worked And Died, The Essence And Quintessence Of Their Lives.