Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
Seneca the YoungerMany person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
Seneca the YoungerIt is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Seneca the YoungerThere are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!
Seneca the Younger