Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.