It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.

There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.

A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.

He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.