A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
No man ever became wise by chance.
That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.
It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.
Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.