All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.