Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny

Boys throw stones at frogs for fun. but the frogs don't die for 'fun', but in sober earnest.

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel.

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.

You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me.

If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.

He can never speak well, who knows not how to hold his peace.

Come back with your shield - or on it.

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

Dead men don't bite.