There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

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

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

Every man's friend is no man's friend.

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.