More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.

The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

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.

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.

Laziness is the mother of all evils.