From the egg to the apple.

Imagine every day to he 5 the last6 of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours, that come unexpectedly, will be so much the more grateful.

I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.