Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.