Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.

Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.