There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Habit is stronger than reason.
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.