When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Love truth, and pardon error.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.