False Shame Only Is Harmful.

Haste Is Blind And Improvident.

We Can Endure Neither Our Vices Nor Their Cure.

Men Are Least Safe From What Success Induces Them Not To Fear.

When Tarquin The Proud Was Asked What Was The Best Mode Of Governing A Conquered City, He Replied Only By Beating Down With His Staff All The Tallest Poppies In His Garden.

The Study Of History Is The Best Medicine For A Sick Mind; For In History You Have A Record Of The Infinite Variety Of Human Experience Plainly Set Out For All To See; And In That Record You Can Find Yourself And Your Country Both Examples And Warnings; Fine Things To Take As Models, Base Things Rotten Through And Through, To Avoid.