Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
He who begs timidly courts a refusal.
It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.