What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!
Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.
It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.
A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]
The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason.