Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.

What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.