The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.