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.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

Man is his own worst enemy.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.