No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.
[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
What a glut of books! Who can read them?
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.