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.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.