The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Great men, like nature, use simple language.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.