Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.