We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.
Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
The lazy are always wanting to do something.
Great thoughts always come from the heart.
Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.
Action makes more fortunes than caution.
If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.
All men are born truthful and die liars.
There are men who are happy without knowing it.
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.
There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.
Prosperity makes few friends.
Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
Great men undertake great things because they are great fools because they think them easy.
No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.
Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.