A man's library is a sort of harem.

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.