Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.

If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.

Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

I see the cure is not worth the pain.