Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?

One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.