No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

In times of stress, be bold and valiant.

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

There is a middle ground in things.

To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.