It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

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

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.