Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them.

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.