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.

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

You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.

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

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

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

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.