It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.

No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

The fear of war is worse than war itself.