I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.

Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.

As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.

For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.