Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.
Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.
No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.
Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.