C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Pindar

With vivid words your just conceptions grace,

Much truth compressing in a narrow space;

Then many shall peruse, but few complain,

And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain.

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it be given with affection.

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.