The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.