The wildest colts make the best horses.
Plutarch
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
To find a fault is easy to do better may be difficult.
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.