Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.

If there is a believe that is capable to move mountains it is the believe in our own strength.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.