Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."