King Agis Said, "the Lacedæmonians Are Not

A Healer Of Others, Himself Diseased.

I Do Not Think That Shoemaker A Good Workman That Makes A Great Shoe For A Little Foot.

A Human Body In No Way Resembles Those That Were Born For Ravenousness; It Hath No Hawk's Bill, No Sharp Talon, No Roughness Of Teeth, No Such Strength Of Stomach Or Heat Of Digestion, As Can Be Sufficient To Convert Or Alter Such Heavy And Fleshy Fare.

Philosophy Finds Talkativeness A Disease Very Difficult And Hard To Cure. For Its Remedy, Conversation, Requires Hearers: But Talkative People Hear Nobody, For They Are Ever Prating. And The First Evil This Inability To Keep Silence Produces Is An Inability To Listen.

It Is Circumstance And Proper Measure That Give An Action Its Character, And Make It Either Good Or Bad.