It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at.

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.