There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.