Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.