Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Those who tell the stories rule society.

The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.