Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. The path to greatness is along with others. The wise does at once what the fool does at last. One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground | 
