Boasting, Like Gilded Armour, Is Very Different

The Noblest People Are Those Despising Wealth, Learning, Pleasure And Life; Esteeming Above Them Poverty, Ignorance, Hardship And Death.

One Original Thought Is Worth A Thousand Mindless Quotings

Good Men Nowhere, But Good Boys At Sparta.

Lust Is A Strong Tower Of Mischief, And Hath In It Many Defenders, As Neediness, Anger, Paleness, Discord, Love, And Longing.

Solon Used To Say That Speech Was The Image Of Actions; . . . That Laws Were Like Cobwebs, - For That If Any Trifling Or Powerless Thing Fell Into Them, They Held It Fast; While If It Were Something Weightier, It Broke Through Them And Was Off.