Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

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.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.