Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.