Be not solitary, be not idle
Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.
What a glut of books! Who can read them?
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.