Custom is almost a second nature.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.