There is a time when even justice brings harm.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.

It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.