Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.