Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.

We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.

A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.