In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.

We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one.

The strong desire for success is the best indication that you can achieve success.

Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

The earliest desire of succeeding is almost always a prognostic of success.

I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.