"A work well begun is half ended."

"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."

"The key is not to live but to live well."

"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."

"A house that has a library in it has a soul."

"We shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know;— that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power."

"The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good."

"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly."

"By harming a horse, you decrease his excellence. Thus, by harming a person, you decrease their excellence."

"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."