Patience is the art of hoping. - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones.

If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.