The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.

These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.