It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.

One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.