There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Many people who pretend to be very busy have the least to do.

The worthless usually live long.

It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts.

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.