Those who can command themselves command others.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare.

No great man ever thought himself so.

There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it.

The more we do, the more we can do.

To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.