Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.

How can I study from below, that which is above?

I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.