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.

The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.

I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.

Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.

Philosophy is the art of living.

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