It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.