A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
It is right to give every man his due.
But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.
The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.