The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.