Who said “Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.”?

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

“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.”

“Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.”

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.”

“Every wall is a door.”

“How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.”

“Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.”

“People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.”

“True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.”

“Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.”

“As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room”