Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.

There are no small steps in great affairs.

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.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy-which means he often finds the remedy too late.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.