Human beings are curious by nature.

That which is excellent endures.

The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.