Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.