One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.