Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

Many littles make a much.