Sweet is war to those who know it not.
He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.