Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.

Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

That comes too late that comes for the asking.

It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.