The ass bears the load, but not the overload.

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.