I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
Whatever is, is in its causes just.
The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.