Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to stop the army, and not to neglect but maintain the Roman cause, now in extreme danger. The prayer was no sooner made, than shame and respect for their king checked many; the fears of the fugitives changed suddenly into confidence.

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

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

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

A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."

He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.