A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.