Abstruse Questions Must Have Abstruse Answers.

Being Conscious Of Having Done A Wicked Action Leaves Stings Of Remorse Behind It, Which, Like An Ulcer In The Flesh, Makes The Mind Smart With Perpetual Wounds; For Reason, Which Chases Away All Other Pains, Creates Repentance, Shames The Soul With Confusion, And Punishes It With Torment.

Pythias Once, Scoffing At Demosthenes, Said That His Arguments Smelt Of The Lamp.

Know How To Listen, And You Will Profit Even From Those Who Talk Badly.

Pompey Bade Sylla Recollect That More Worshipped The Rising Than The Setting Sun.

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?