"Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.”

“Do not spread the compost on the weeds.”

“Where I could not be honest,I never yet was valiant.”

“A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.”

“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”

“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”

“Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.”

“Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.”

“Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.”