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

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!