I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.