The Chief Element Of Happiness Is This:

For Them It's Out-of-date And Outmoded To Perform Miracles; Teaching The People Is Too Like Hard Work, Interpreting The Holy Scriptures Is For Schoolmen And Praying Is A Waste Of Time; To Shed Tears Is Weak And Womanish, To Be Needy Is Degrading; To Suffer Defeat Is A Disgrace And Hardly Fitting For One Who Scarcely Permits The Greatest Of Kings To Kiss The Toes Of His Sacred Feet; And Finally, Death Is An Unattractive Prospect, And Dying On A Cross Would Be An Ignominious End.

At Last Concluded That No Creature Was More Miserable Than Man, For That All Other Creatures Are Content With Those Bounds That Nature Set Them, Only Man Endeavors To Exceed Them.

I Have Turned My Entire Attention To Greek. The First Thing I Shall Do, As Soon As The Money Arrives, Is To Buy Some Greek Authors; After That, I Shall Buy Clothes.

If You Look At History You'll Find That No State Has Been So Plagued By Its Rulers As When Power Has Fallen Into The Hands Of Some Dabbler In Philosophy Or Literary Addict.

Great Abundance Of Riches Cannot Be Gathered And Kept By Any Man Without Sin.