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

The wildest colts make the best horses.

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.

I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.

Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.