Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.

We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much one from another; but it is true that the ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school.