He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.

It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned.

The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives adivine life. By the healthful and invigorating thrills of inspiration his life is preserved to a serene old age.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.