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.

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

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.

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.