The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.