For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.

Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.