The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.