For style beyond the genius never dares.
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.