The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

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.

A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

I see the cure is not worth the pain.

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.