Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.