The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.