Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

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.

Love comes with hunger.

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.