A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

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

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.