Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn’t consider himself supremely blest.

Greed’s worst point is its ingratitude.

For greed all nature is too little.

We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it’s the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that’s weighed.

Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.

The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

Luck never made a man wise.