Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.