We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Is there life before death?
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.