“A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.”

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]

One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.

Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.

One man by delaying saved the state for us.

That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.

A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.

The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.

A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.

Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.

Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.

They hate whom they fear.

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

It is important to receive God’s arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God’s arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.

For, the circumference of one of these little Animals in water, is not so big as the thickness of a hair in a Cheese-mite.

The whole circumference of each of these streaks was about the thickness of a hair of one’s head. … all consisted of very small green globules joined together: and there were very many small green globules as well. [The earliest recorded observation of the common green alga Spyrogyra.]

But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.