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.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!

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.

When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.