Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.

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

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.

Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.