It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

There is no success without hardship.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.