The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
No noble thing can be done without risks.
The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.