Nobody learns what he can do except by trying. - Seneca

To roam in open walks, that the soul may increase and lift itself up in the free air and with much spirit; sometimes travel and a change of country will give vigor, and marriage and more liberal drink. Sometimes even to the point of drunkenness, not that it drowns us, but that it depresses us: for it washes away cares and moves the mind from below, and, as with certain diseases, so it heals sadness.

No one can lead a happy life if he thinks only of himself.

So many rich men are stricken before our eyes with sudden poverty yet it never occurs to us that our own wealth also rests on just as slippery a footing.