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

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

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.

If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.