Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.

The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.