What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

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.

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.

There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.

The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.