Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.