Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.
In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.
And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.
Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.