The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.

People readily believe what they want to believe.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.