To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

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.

Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.