Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.
Words will build no walls.
Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.
Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.
To please the many is to displease the wise.
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."