Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.