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.

The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

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

Find a path or make one.

The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.