Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.
Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.
In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.
The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
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.
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.