A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.
I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.