“The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.”
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
