If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.
I love the broad margin to my life.
It is good even to be a fisherman in summer and in winter.
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.