"An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers."

"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince."

"It is easy to forgive children who are afraid of the dark but the real tragedy of life is men who are afraid of the light."

"Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore, he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.,."

"Of necessity, the most like are most full of envy, strife, and hatred of one another, and the most unlike of friendship. For the poor man is compelled to be the friend of the rich, and the weak requires the aid of the strong, and the sick man of the physician; everyone who knows not has to love and court him who knows."

"Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done."

"Will life be worth having, if that higher part of man be destroyed, which is improved by justice and depraved by injustice?"

"Is there any self-existent fire? and do all those things which we call self-existent exist? or are only those things which we see, or in some way perceive through the bodily organs, truly existent, and nothing whatever besides them? And is all that which we call an intelligible essence nothing at all, and only a name?"

"Human behavior flows from three main sources desire, emotion, and knowledge."

"Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up."