In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.
Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.
There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.
High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.
Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.