Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

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."

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.