The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

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

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

As the world leads we follow.