Post #3338

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
—Edmund Burke

Post #3337

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease, and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
—Sir Walter Raleigh

Post #3336

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
—Nicolas Chamfort

Post #3335

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of it for another.
—Charles Dickens

Post #3334

As physicians have always their instruments and knives ready for cases which suddenly require their skill, so do thou have principles ready for the understanding of things divine and human, and doing everything, even the smallest, with a recollection of the bond which unites the divine and human to one another.
—Marcus Aurelius