Beauty is the flower of virtue.

Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.

But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to stop the army, and not to neglect but maintain the Roman cause, now in extreme danger. The prayer was no sooner made, than shame and respect for their king checked many; the fears of the fugitives changed suddenly into confidence.