Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Every hour has its end.
Fair play is a jewel.
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.