There are no small steps in great affairs.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone.

Weakness has many stages. There is a difference between feebleness by the impotency of the will, of the will to the resolution, of the resolution to the choice of means, of the choice of the means to the application.

Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

What is necessary is never a risk.