Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause..

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..

What can they suffer that do not fear to die?.

Painting is silent poetry..

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely….

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length..

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he ….

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals ….

Character is simply habit long continued..

To please the many is to displease the wise..

Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love..

Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.].

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish..

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly..

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kn….

Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer ….

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them..

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born in….

Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship wit….

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune..

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty..