Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.