I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

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.

Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!

The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.