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

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.

The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.

Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.