No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Loudness is impotence.

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.