Action makes more fortune than caution.
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
Despair is the greatest of our errors.
We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.