When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.