There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which were always there but which wealth and favour had concealed.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.