Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

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

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.