It is wiser to treat men and things as though we held this world the common fatherland of all. - Erasmus

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

Your library is your paradise.

And therefore suppose that Plato dreamed of somewhat like it when he called the madness of lovers the most happy condition of all others. For he that’s violently in love lives not in his own body but in the thing he loves; and by how much the farther he runs from himself into another, by so much the greater is his pleasure