A healer of others, himself diseased.

Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.

He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to stop the army, and not to neglect but maintain the Roman cause, now in extreme danger. The prayer was no sooner made, than shame and respect for their king checked many; the fears of the fugitives changed suddenly into confidence.