Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.