The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.