The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.

The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.

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