We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.