True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.
Grandes materias ingenia parva non sufferunt.
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
A dreadful rumor reached us from the West. We heard that Rome was besieged, that the citizens were buying their safety with gold, and that when they had been thus despoiled they were again beleaguered, so as to lose not only their substance but their lives. ...The speaker's voice failed and sobs interrupted his utterance. The city which had taken the whole world was itself taken; nay, it fell by famine before it fell by the sword, and there were but few to be found to be made prisoner.