To understand the essence and workings of insanity, Gallus Vibius strained his mind so that he tore his judgment from its seat and could never get it back again: he could boast he became mad through wisdom.

As for dying we can only assay that once; we are all apprentices when it comes to that.

Let every foot have its own shoe.

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

One may be humble out of pride.

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

Handling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with more vigorous and varied services, by stretching and bending it.