We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.
By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember
And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
It is not right to glory in the slain