Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

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.

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

There are no small steps in great affairs.

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.

What is necessary is never a risk.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.