A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.

Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.

It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.