What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; What's genuine, shall posterity inherit. [Ger., Was glanzt ist fur den Augenblick geboren; Das Aechte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.]

To a valet no man is a hero

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

The little man is still a man.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.