What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.