It Is Worse To Apprehend Than To

There Is What Is Called The Highway To Posts And Honor, And There Is A Cross And By Way, Which Is Much The Shortest.

The Noblest Deeds Are Well Enough Set Forth In Simple Language; Emphasis Spoils Them.

If Men Wish To Be Held In Esteem, They Must Associate With Those Only Who Are Estimable.

False Modesty Is The Refinement Of Vanity. It Is A Lie.

From Time To Time There Appear On The Face Of The Earth Men Of Rare And Consummate Excellence, Who Dazzle Us By Their Virtue, And Whose Outstanding Qualities Shed A Stupendous Light. Like Those Extraordinary Stars Of Whose Origins We Are Ignorant, And Of Whose Fate, Once They Have Vanished, We Know Even Less, Such Men Have Neither Forebears Nor Descendants: They Are The Whole Of Their Race.