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

Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied.

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.