Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.