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

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.