Mercy often inflicts death.
Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.