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

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.

Character is long-standing habit.

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

What can they suffer that do not fear to die?

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.