Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.