Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?