Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.
The first mark of valor is defence.
Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.
Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.