Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.