“He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.”

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

I will be small in small things, great among great.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Convention is the ruler of all.

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

Mankind is a dream of a shadow.

Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

The present will not long endure.

Though God alone never tastes woe, Yet that man is happy, and poets sing of him, Who conquers with hand or swift foot And wins the greatest of prizes By steadfastness and strength.

To bear lightly the neck’s yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

Life feels less lonely, and that’s a big obstacle to overcome.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.

I will be small in small things, great among great.

To laugh is proper to man.

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.