Prevention is better than cure.

Your library is your paradise.

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

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

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.