There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time
Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.