To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.
We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.
Great men are sometimes so even in small things.