He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

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.

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.