Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
Our best history is still poetry.
Our distrust is very expensive.
Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.