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

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

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.

What can they suffer that do not fear to die?

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

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Character is inured habit.