True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.
Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.