Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home