What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.