We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.
Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.
We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.
Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.