To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

The rogue has everywhere the advantage.

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.