No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.
Great men always pay deference to greater.
Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.