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

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.

And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!".

Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

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