Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

To please the many is to displease the wise.

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being: who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, perception and with voice. …but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born in to the world to enjoy.

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.