Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

Know thyself; this is the great object.

He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.