There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.

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

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

Words will build no walls.