If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
The strong man is strongest when alone.
I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.
Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.
When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.