It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.