The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
![Pliny the Elder Quote - It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/it-the-earth-alone-remains-immoveable-whilst-all-t-683x1024.jpg)
