The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

Plant no other tree before the vine.

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.