Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.
It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.