Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons

Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If there be a shore that dreads not the fury of the faithless billows, it is some poor and narrow inlet unknown to the winds.

It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand.

Cowards' weapons neither cut nor pierce.

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness.