Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.