Consciousness of our strength increases it.
Despair is the greatest of our errors.
Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.
The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.
Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem.