What I'd like to be above all is a writer.
Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
Anything a man can imagine, another can create
How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!