Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.