The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.

Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.

There is something in omens.

Thanks are justly due for boons unbought

Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!

God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.

Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)