Slander is the solace of malignity.

There are those to whom one must advise madness.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.