Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Custom is almost a second nature.

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''