Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heaven.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.