You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it

There can be little liking where there is no likeness.