To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

Be not solitary, be not idle

They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.

If you like not my writing, go read something else.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.