4 quotes found
“What a glut of books! Who can read them?”
“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”
“That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.”
“I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minervas tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi t...”