Silence is an answer to a wise man.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

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.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.