In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.