All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Call no man happy before he dies.