We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.

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.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.