Every man has within himself the entire human condition

We cannot fail in following nature.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them; 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.

If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.