If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.
This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.
In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words.
Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.