Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

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

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.

Either is both, and Both is neither.

If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.