A great mind becomes a great fortune.

How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.

Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

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.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.