“It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it”

“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”

“It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.”

“Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature”

“Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.”

“Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.”

“Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.”