Naught so sweet as melancholy.

Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option.

Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.