The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.

Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.