Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).

Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.