They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!