From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.