Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.

Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth