Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.