So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.