The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.

All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.