Most safely shall you tread the middle path.
Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.
If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.
It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.