Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

More law, less justice.

I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.