Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.