"There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men."

"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."

"He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray."

"All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious."

"There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder."

"By their own follies they perished, the fools."

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work."

"Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it."

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."

"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action."

"It is a bad plan that admits of no modification."