The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness.

Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

To be at ease is better than to be at business.