Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.