Hope is a great falsifier of truth.

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

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

If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.

Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief.