It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.