Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.

Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.