Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.