Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.