I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.
No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.