There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied.

Character is inured habit.

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.