The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.
The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
The way to good conduct is never too late.
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
There is no evil without its compensation.
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
To make a commencement requires a mental effort.
To meditate an injury is to commit one.
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
Delay not; swift the flight of fortune’s greatest favours.
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.