It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the read more

It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the first.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one read more

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one fills.
[Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a
pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.]

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
[Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
[Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]

You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.

You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.

Too good for great things and too great for good.

Too good for great things and too great for good.

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of read more

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

'Tis fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

'Tis fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.