The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.