There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.