Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.
In success be moderate.
Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.
You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.