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

Character is long-standing habit.

To please the many is to displease the wise.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.