He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.