Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

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.

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.

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

Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.