Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.