Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.

What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.

We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?

It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

There is only one proof of ability - action.