Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.

It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

Character is simply habit long continued.