A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
Cats ask plainly for what they want.
What is reading but silent conversation?
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.
Contentment is better than divinations or visions.