No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.

Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.