The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Action makes more fortune than caution

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy

There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offence that one appreciates them.

The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.