43 quotes found
“Great thoughts always come from the heart.”
“No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.”
“All men are born truthful and die liars.”
“The lazy are always wanting to do something.”
“We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.”
“When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.”
“Great men undertake great things because they are great fools because they think them easy.”
“The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.”
“Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.”
“When an idea is too weak to support a simple statement it is a sign that it should be rejected.”
“Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.”
“If virtue were its own reward it would no longer be a human quality but supernatural.”
“Vice stirs up war virtue fights.”
“Great thoughts come from the heart.”
“To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.”
“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.”
“Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.”
