Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Be not solitary, be not idle
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.