Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.
Patience is the art of hoping.
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
The idle always have a mind to do something.
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.