The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.