In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

All men are alike when asleep.

You can never learn anything that you did not already know

There is honor in being a dog.

When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.