He Is A Fool Who Leaves Things

Alexander Wept When He Heard From Anaxarchus That There Was An Infinite Number Of Worlds; And His Friends Asking Him If Any Accident Had Befallen Him, He Returns This Answer: "do You Not Think It A Matter Worthy Of Lamentation That When There Is Such A Vast Multitude Of Them, We Have Not Yet Conquered One?

Nature Without Learning Is Like A Blind Man; Learning Without Nature, Like A Maimed One; Practice Without Both, Incomplete. As In Agriculture A Good Soil Is First Sought For, Then A Skilful Husbandman, And Then Good Seed; In The Same Way Nature Corresponds To The Soil, The Teacher To The Husbandman, Precepts And Instruction To The Seed.

The Present Offers Itself To Our Touch For Only An Instant Of Time And Then Eludes The Senses.

Courage Consists Not In Hazarding Without Fear; But Being Resolutely Minded In A Just Cause.

A Prating Barber Asked Archelaus How He Would Be Trimmed. He Answered, "in Silence."