The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.

And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!".

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

Reason speaks and feeling bites