He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

I do not teach. I relate.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.