Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

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

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.