You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

A true friend is a sort of second self.

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.