The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.

We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?