Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

We have time enough if we but use it aright