“Be slow in considering, but resolute in action.”

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

I taught myself how to pole vault in one day. The next day I entered a meet to pole vault and won it all for the state of Alabama.

Hear much; speak little.

Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.

The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.

He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.