Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

Virtue is nothing else than right reason

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.