“ Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. ”
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
~ Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.