Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

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.

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.

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.

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.