Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

To make a commencement requires a mental effort.

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.