“Sweet is war to those who know it not.”

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.

Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.

Learn what you are and be such.

With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.

War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.

Unsung, the noblest deed will die.

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

Who a person is will ultimately determine if their brains, talents, competencies, energy, effort, deal-making abilities, and opportunities will succeed.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

I grew up in New York and I’ve always lived here, so I look at myself as a regular person.

Love fails for you when you reject, betray and do not love. Therefore .. Love.

The stronger always succeeds.

But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder….