The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

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

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

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.