A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.
The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.