We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.
The fortune of war is always doubtful.
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.