The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.