Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.