The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.
If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.