Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.