The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

To the good warrior soundeth "thou shalt" pleasanter than "I will." And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have it commanded unto you.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.