For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it.

Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.

Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device.

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.

A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."