"Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the..." - Quote by Euripides

“Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.”

“Virtue proceeds through effort.”

“It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.”

“I judge people by their own principles..not by my own”

“Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tonguesare called fools.”

“People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.”

“I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what is true; and they do not always mean what they say.”

“Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!”

“Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as toil gives to sour bread. The breath with which the poet utters his verse must be that by which he lives.”