We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.

Who has more leisure than a worm?

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Successful villany is called virtue.