"Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?"

"To be is to do."

"The misuse of language induces evil in the soul."

"Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle."

"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."

"The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be."

"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."

"Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."

"How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?"

"Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one."

"And so they grow richer and richer, and the more they think of making a fortune the less they think of virtue; for when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance, the one always rises as the other falls."

"Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?"

"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."

"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."

"An unconsidered life is not one worth living."

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."

"It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one."

"Do you feel no compunction, Socrates, at having followed a line of action which puts you in danger of the death penalty?' I might fairly reply to him, 'You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action--that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one."

"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."

"Through your rags I see your vanity."