Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Always the same thing.

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.