He is not yet born who can please everybody.
1230
Fenimore Cooper asserts, in one of his books, that there is "an instinctive tendency in men to look at any man who has become distinguished." Said Carlyle: "True, surely, and moreover, an instinctive desire in men to become distinguished and be looked at, too!"
1231
It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
—Amiel.
1232
Man is not allowed to know what will happen—tomorrow.
—Statius.
