It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

When the candles are out all women are fair.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common land they assigned to such of the citizens as were poor and indigent, for which they were to pay only a small acknowledgment into the public treasury. But when the wealthy men began to offer larger rents, and drive the poorer people out, it was enacted by law that no person whatever should enjoy more than five hundred acres of ground.

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.