It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.