The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.
What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.
For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.
Evil report carries further than any applause.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.