Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill; to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger.

Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

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

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

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.