Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

No truly great man ever thought himself so.

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them.