Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the read more

It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the first.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one read more

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one fills.
[Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a
pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.]

An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.

An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.

You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.

You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.

This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd,
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.

This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd,
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.

All human things
Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

All human things
Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

Now, good my lord,
Let there be some more test made of my mettle
Before so noble read more

Now, good my lord,
Let there be some more test made of my mettle
Before so noble and so great a figure
Be stamped upon it.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.