Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.