A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.
Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.
But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.
The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.