The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

The desire to write grows with writing.

I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Fortune favours the audacious.

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.