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Learned, clear-headed, and practical, he fulfilled in all emergencies those three conditions which united ought to insure human success--activity of mind and body, impetuous wishes, and powerful will.
William of Orange in the 17th century: "I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success."
The moon, which had been full five days before, had not yet risen, but the horizon was already silvered by those soft, pale shades which might be called the dawn of the moon.
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
an energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
heat will die away, as does the heat from a body when the soul has left it; and life will disappear from the globe, if not for ever, at least for a period.
"man is never perfect, nor contented."
