Learn what you are and be such.

My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.

Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

The noblest of the elements is water