A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.