One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.

The mob will now and then see things in a right light.

Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.