But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to stop the army, and not to neglect but maintain the Roman cause, now in extreme danger. The prayer was no sooner made, than shame and respect for their king checked many; the fears of the fugitives changed suddenly into confidence.

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Character is inured habit.