Every journey has an end.

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

Man is a reasoning Animal.

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

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.