One must steer, not talk.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.