In the most illustrious and glorious captains and emperors of the world, study and war have preserved their close relationship, and military art has allied itself with learning. The sword has not disdained the pen in such minds. A learned symbol of this truth is the arrow: with the pen, the iron that will strike flies.
Words are like coins, where one is worth many, but many are not worth one.
The spirit that thinks about what it can fear, begins to fear what it can think.
That man who loses honor for the business, loses both the business and the honor.
Pride is the architect of ruin; it places the foundations on high and the tiles on the foundations.
Everyone who seems stupid, is, and also half of those who don't seem so are.