It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.