The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

Half talent is no talent.

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

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.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.