What soon grows old? Gratitude.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

The intention makes the crime.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.

Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.