A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

Luck never made a man wise.

There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.