Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
What is reading but silent conversation?
Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.