It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

To please the many is to displease the wise.

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

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

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.

Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.