Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?