No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.