To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied.

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 . . . There is nobody that is willing to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing even as it is; so they boil it, and roast it, and alter it by fire and medicines, as it were, changing and quenching the slaughtered gore with thousands of sweet sauces, that the palate being thereby deceived may admit of such uncouth fare.

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.