The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
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.
Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.
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.