Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

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

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.