In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

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

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.