Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
That which takes effect by chance is not an art.
Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it