There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.
Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.
Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.
Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.
The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.
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