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.

Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth.

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.