A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."

The wildest colts make the best horses.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.

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.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.