Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion