There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.

When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.

What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.