Beauty is the flower of virtue.

The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.