Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.