A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.