If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.

There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all.

If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.