If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non animum mutant': they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.