Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.