Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot of unknown back then, too. I dare say it was easier to be an explorer then.

If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.