Reason speaks and feeling bites

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied.

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.