Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.
All grand thoughts come from the heart.
It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.
The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.
In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.