A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.