Here, first of all men for pure justice famed, And moral virtue, Aristocles lies; And if there e'er has lived one truly wise, This man was wiser still; too great for envy.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

He was the first author who wrote treatises in the form of dialogues ... And as he argued against almost every one who had lived before his time, it is often a…

What is left now of the soils of Greece, is like the skeleton of a body wasted by disease. The rich, soft soil has been carried off.

Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous m…

Steadfast of thought, Well made, well wrought, Far may be sought, Ere that ye can find So courteous, so kind As merry Margaret, This midsummer flower, Gentle a…

A sweeter woman ne'er drew breath Than my sonne's wife, Elizabeth.