"A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Calamus fortior gladio.”

“Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.”

“No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.”

“Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.”

“Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.”

“There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.”

“Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.”

“It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.”

“I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.”