Great men always pay deference to greater.
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
What is reading but silent conversation?
Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.
Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.