Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.