Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
We are never so generous as when giving advice.
Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.
There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.
Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.