Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

Whenever a new finding is reported to the world people say - It is probably not true. Later on, when the reliability of a new finding has been fully confirmed, people say - OK, it may be true but it has no real significance. At last, when even the significance of the finding is obvious to everybody, people say - Well, it might have some significance, but the idea is not new.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.