Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being centred upon the few, the generality were poor and miserable. Honourable pursuits, for which there was no longer leisure, were neglected; the state was filled with sordid business, and with hatred and envy of the rich.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.