Consider an enemy may become a friend.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.