Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.