The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.