Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.
With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court