Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.

Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

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

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.