Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
Summer treads on heels of spring.
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.