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 health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.

Nothing can be produced out of nothing.

The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.