Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.
Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.