Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.