A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely, " quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else."

A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much. " "True, " said he. "but every goose can. "

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet, " added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me. "

As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, "He had divorced ...

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.

Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.